Our first graph
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Step 1
Tidy data by Whickham
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Cleaning Data -
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Step 6
A good way to organize script files is number them in the order they get run.
The important considerations in data
USE CONTROLLED VOCABULARY AND BE CONSISTENT THINK BEFORE DOING –> WHAT HAPPENS DOWN THE ROAD
Broman KW, & Woo KH. 2018. Data organization in spreadsheets. The American Statistician 72: 2-10 (HERE)
example of fish data
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is 01 04 2025 the same as 04 01 2025
what are the dates in english?
or European
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What is data about
Who collected it
When
Where
Funding agency
Methods used to collect
Variable names
description
units
abbreviations
CALCULATIONS AND WHY?
We need to know what happened and why?